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Kitchen (done): upload for requests in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I really like this design. Well done!

Are there others like me? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is me. Coming up on two decades in game dev, and I've always cared way more about building things that are genuinely robust and also make sense to humans, but everyone just wants "fast and cheap", thinks documentation is a waste of time ("you can just talk to people"), doesn't understand "tech debt" as a concept at all, and refuses to prioritize tools work because "it's not player-facing".

All software is rushed software.

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Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
 

Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions – billions! – of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer.

Yet I sometimes wonder whether one second is the smallest unit of time most programmers think in. Do they know that you can run entire test suites in 1s and not just a single test? Do they know that one second is slow?

Seeing how slow modern software can be, on modern hardware, just makes me sad sometimes. I really feel this person's pain, including the slow creeping insanity of "how is nobody else noticing/bothered by this". 😓

Microsoft’s cloud ambitions for Windows could kill off desktop PCs – and sooner than we expected in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Could kill off desktop PCs

Linux has entered the chat.

YSK: Feel like you only see the same 2-day old content? At least on lemmy.world, you can change your homepage's default sorting type & scope to "Hot" and "All" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.

I'm sure with more growth that will change, but it's definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.

(This does of course assume that you're subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you're interested in.)

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Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? (programming.dev)
 

I see this more and more lately: go to log in to some site, and they only show the username field. Enter username, click Submit, then a password field appears. Enter password, click Submit again, and then we're logged in.

This makes using a password manager super annoying, because I have to trigger the autofill twice.

Is there some security-related reason more sites are doing this? Is it an anti-bot thing? I'm just really curious, because it seems so pointless on its face, but it seems to be spreading.

Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I'm also finding it really effective. I only hate that backing out from a post is a crapshoot on whether it preserves my scroll position, resets to the top, or reloads the entire feed.

Is anyone else tired of “employee engagement”? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

For three years now, I've put in real low scores and real critical comments on these things, and literally everyone I know at work says they've done the same (we are all so stressed) but then next quarter comes along and the execs share the survey results and wouldn't you know it, engagement is great, the best it's ever been, no problems here!

Amazing how that happens.